Nancy Reagan Quotes

You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.

There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.

You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.

Dont ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone.

Drugs take away the dream from every child's heart and replace it with a nightmare. And it's time we in America stand up and replace those dreams.

My life really began when I married my husband.

With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to alleviate so much suffering. Surely, by working together we can harness its life-giving potential.

I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them, and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.

Everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. We completed each other.

I think more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

People aren't really poor until they start using water on their corn flakes.

Every woman is entitled to an opinion and the right to express that opinion-especially to the man she's married to.

I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.

I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.

As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.

For eight years, I was sleeping with the president, and if that doesn't give you special access, I don't know what does!

I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.

Presidents don't get vacations - they just get a change of scenery. The job goes with you.

Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.

I don't like a lot of frills and fusses.

I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.

I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care.

I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.

People should be afraid of the cancer, not the mammogram.

What can you say about a man, who on Mother's Day sends flowers to his mother-in-law, with a note thanking her for making him the happiest man on Earth?

I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.

There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.

I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.

The White House belongs to all Americans. It's supposed to be something we're proud of.

I've always gone for the more understated look.

Why take chances? It may be nonsense, but does anybody really know? And people have certainly been fascinated by astrology for thousands of years.

I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.

I'm doing what I want to do.

A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.

Just say no to drugs!

I was doing everything I could think of to protect my husband and keep him alive.

It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.

A lot of what acting is paying attention.

I said from the very beginning, I don't want a big house, I don't want big grounds, I don't want the trouble with the maintenance and all of that.

I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.

I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.

You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.

I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade.

It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher.

The movies were custard compared to politics.

I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.